05/29/2026
🌟 What it feels like to realize a vision four years in the making! 🌟 This structure is the result of a long, sometimes dramatic, effort that started in 2022. This is where food moves from the field into the community—washed, packed, and prepared for families, schools, and our farm stand. It will allow us to scale production, maintain quality, and actually get more local food into people’s hands. It also allows more space for our education programs to expand—we aren’t washing and packing vegetables in our outdoor classroom anymore!
SINCERE GRATITUDE to our funders for this project: California Department of Food and Agriculture , the folks at AgWest Farm Credit , and the generous individual donors who helped build this new hub for our farm community.
This structure took four years of work and a very dedicated team working through ups and downs and the challenges involved in pulling this off just *days* away from our grant deadline. A huge thanks to the folks that worked on this project:
Rachel Kovesdi at Kovesdi Consulting who donated her time and expertise
Andrew Goodwin and Bryan Shields at Andrew Goodwin Designs
Dan at Hive Engineering
Stacey and Halil at
My team of staff at City Farm SLO
Now, we’re dedicating this pavilion in honor of Steven and Jan Marx as a small token of appreciation for what they have done to make City Farm SLO what it is today. We could not be more grateful for their more than 15 years of commitment to City Farm SLO. .marx
